Pelayo
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| Name | Pelayo | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 1,346 tons | ||
| Completed | 1927 - Harland & Wolff Ltd, Govan, Glasgow | ||
| Owner | MacAndrews & Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 15 Jun 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-552 (Erich Topp) | ||
| Position | 43.18N, 17.38W - Grid BE 8839 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 47 (17 dead and 30 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HG-84 | ||
| Route | Gibraltar (10 Jun) - Swansea | ||
| Cargo | 755 tons of government stores and scrap iron | ||
| History | Completed in December 1927 | ||
| Notes on loss | At 00.58 and 00.59 hours on 15 Jun, 1942, U-552 attacked the convoy HG-84 about 400 miles west-northwest of Corunna and sank three ships, Etrib, Pelayo and Slemdal. The Pelayo (Master Robert Hughes Williams) was the ship of the convoy commodore H.T. Hudson, Rtd, RNR. The commodore, eleven crew members, three gunners and two naval staff members were lost. The master, 24 crew members, two gunners and three naval staff members were picked up by the British rescue ship Copeland (Master W.J. Hartley, DSC) and landed at Gourock on 20 June. | ||
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